[Madwifi-devel] [RFC] Support for disabling/enabling RFKILL (aka RF-Silent)

[Sven S. <sv...@gm...>]

All,

i've written a small patch for madwifi-ng that allows disabling or
enabling RFKILL Pin support on Atheros based Wifi cards. This is extremely
useful if you are using a Laptop with a non-original Wifi Card - for
example IBM Thinkpads. They have the softled on Pin0, where normally the
RFKILL Input resides. If someone want to use the softled, this doesn't
work, because at the moment where the LED is switched on, RFKILL is
activated. An example for this behaviour is ticket #153. 
(http://www.madwifi.org/ticket/153)

With the attached patch, the ath_pci has one more option. Load this
module with rfkill=1 enables RFKILL, rfkill=0 disables it. If this
option is not specified, the default setting from the EEPROM is used.

Regards,

Sven.
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